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Ernest Hemingway's Fiesta, Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Development of Femininity and Masculinity in the 1920s
KREJZLOVÁ, Anna
The main aim of this thesis is the analysis of the characters from Francis Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) and Ernest Hemingway's Fiesta (1926) with a focus on the female protagonists. To fully understand the characters, the work first concentrates on the historical background. The theory primarily centres on the American society living in the 1920s, discusses the term The Lost Generation, provides an overview of the changes the women experienced in relation to the term a New Woman, and examines the real-life models that inspired both authors in creating the female characters. Subsequently, the work analyses female characters according to several themes: social standing, money, appearance, morals, relationships, and power. After the analysis, the problem of masculinity is discussed. At first, the thesis describes the changes in the perception of manliness from the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century and then, the male characters and their view on masculinity is examined in relation to the theoretical background.
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Masculinity and its Crisis in the work of E. Hemingway, K. Kesey and Ch. Palahniuk
HOFFMANN, Daniel
The diploma thesis sets out to analyse and compare the portrayal of masculinity and its crisis in the novels The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Firstly, it defines masculinity as gender and it introduces the fundamental theoretical framework for gender analysis. The thesis focuses on gender and its key aspects, the relation of gender and human physiology, the theories of gender acquisition and the basic perspectives of understanding masculinity. After that, the thesis describes the concepts of hegemonic and toxic masculinity, followed by the debate about masculinity crisis as a political category and individual identity. The literary analysis of each novel introduces the life of the author as well as his literary and historical context. Initially, it analyses each male character separately so that it can later conclusively describe the ten examined key aspects of masculinity and its crisis in the novel. After the analysis of each novel, the thesis presents their comparison put in the historical context.
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F. S. Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway - Acrimonious Rivalry or Literary Friendship?
ŽOHOVÁ, Monika
This bachelor work concentrates on the friendship of two significant writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway who were part of an American group called the Lost Generation. The work is focused not only on their lives in light of their vicinity, but also on the exchanged correspondence of these authors. As such, it tries to find and, eventually, interpret the hidden purpose of their behavior and opinions. The conclusion summarizes the importance of the friendship of these literary giants with respect to their private and working lives.
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